By: Tanya Ward Goodman Lately, I’ve been listening to a lot of Kate Bush. She’s there in my car, in my kitchen, filling my house with her soprano warble. I played the song “Wuthering Heights” for my daughter a couple of weeks ago because she’s got her own soprano warble going and I thought she […]
By: Tanya Ward Goodman About four days into this New Year, I took my holiday money to a local spa and booked a massage. I’d spent three weeks in the near constant company of my children and while we had a mostly marvelous time, I was in sore need of an hour alone. Bonus if […]
By: Tosha Woronov Several months ago I wrote about my and my husband’s decision to not have any more children. [My One and Only] I wrote a little about his enviable conviction in our choice to stop at one and I wrote a lot about my angst. (Of course, I can probably count on one hand […]
By: Tanya Ward Goodman My family is a rock family. By that I do not mean we are in a band. We like rocks. We cannot help but pick up round stones and hold them in our hands as we walk. Our dryer rattles with the sound of loose gravel, our yard is filled with […]
By: Tanya Ward Goodman In the newspaper today, I learned a little about the six people killed in Arizona. I learned that a little girl wanted to grow into a veterinarian; I learned that an older couple had found each other after a long life. I learned that a young man was looking for an […]
By: Tanya Ward Goodman After ten days on a nearly-deserted island, we arrived home to a crispy Christmas tree and piles of mail. Nearly-deserted island? It’s true. This year, for the holidays, we packed up the fam and braved numerous (and increasingly smaller) airplanes, arriving finally on what is referred to as a “family island” […]
By: Tanya Ward Goodman Hip LA mom writes about things to do in the city with your children. Took the kids to LACMA recently on the first of what I’ve decided will be “Terrific Tuesdays”. Thanks to constant LAUSD budget cuts they get out of school early on Tuesdays and rather than spend these extra […]
By: Tanya Ward Goodman I returned two sweaters today and one the day before. All three sweaters are similar – funnel neck, wide cuffs, boxy shape. They were all black or dark charcoal gray. They were very nice sweaters. They did the things a sweater should do. For example, they were all warm. But they […]
By: Tanya Ward Goodman We spent Black Friday under blue skies. My kids wanted the beach. My visiting mother wanted the beach. We headed to the beach. Though it was freezing cold, my daughter wore her bikini. “Tanya Ward Goodman,” she said, when I questioned her choice, “I am warm, I am hot, I am […]
By: Tanya Ward Goodman On Sunday, I went to a yoga class and then hit the farmers’ market. Blinking in the sun (gotta love November in Los Angeles), I sorted through piles of tomatoes and zucchini and little round sweet peppers, red as Christmas lights. I grabbed a couple of bunches of kale, some brand-new […]
